[ANN][XCP] Counterparty - Pioneering Peer-to-Peer Finance - Official Thread

[profitofthegods]

I'm waiting to get a 2 XCP game of Rock-Paper-Scissors matched.

Will nobody play with me?

[IamNotSure]

I'm waiting to get a 2 XCP game of Rock-Paper-Scissors matched.

Will nobody play with me?

I'm on it !

(I'd prefer the lizard version )

[profitofthegods]

I'm waiting to get a 2 XCP game of Rock-Paper-Scissors matched.

Will nobody play with me?

I'm on it !

(I'd prefer the lizard version )

Great -- good luck!

I don't know the lizard version, what's that?

[IamNotSure]

I'm waiting to get a 2 XCP game of Rock-Paper-Scissors matched.

Will nobody play with me?

I'm on it !

(I'd prefer the lizard version )

Great -- good luck!

I don't know the lizard version, what's that?

just click on the spock image in counterwallet

Rules :

[profitofthegods]

I'm waiting to get a 2 XCP game of Rock-Paper-Scissors matched.

Will nobody play with me?

I'm on it !

(I'd prefer the lizard version )

Great -- good luck!

I don't know the lizard version, what's that?

just click on the spock image in counterwallet

Rules :

Woah, that's awesome! I can't believe I hadn't noticed that before.

[nakaone]

Patrick Byrne will give a keynote speech at Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas.

The blockchain has proved very well suited to the exchange of digital currency. But what about exchanging shares of public companies? Overstock.com Patrick M. Byrne, a longtime critic of Wall Street, is actively pursuing a model for trading stock on a peer to peer basis using the Bitcoin protocol. In his talk, Byrne will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by a decentralized stock exchange.

http://insidebitcoins.com/las-vegas/2014/agenda/
http://insidebitcoins.com/las-vegas/2014/speakers/

Interesting :
- Why does a Top CEO make a lecture on stocks on blockchain ?
- I don't remember how he announced that Overstock would embrace bitcoin, but when he did everything was ready and ahead of agenda.

I hope he will announce something.

He has been talking about Overstock issuing cryptosecurities for a while. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/overstock-and-cryptocurrency/.

is there still contact between overstock and counterparty?

[nutildah]

Thanks for posting this I didn't even notice the change...

[baddw]

Counterwallet UI gripe: I keep Counterwallet open on my laptop pretty frequently.  I do take my laptop with me from place to place during the day.  The "Error trying to sync BTC balances" thing happens a lot because I am changing different networks, etc.  No big deal.

The problem is that the errors start stacking.  I click "OK", there's another error behind it, click "OK", there's another error behind it.  Although usually it is just 3 or 4 errors, there have been times when I I have had to sit there and click like 20-30 times.  I would appreciate it if they would only stack a couple deep.  Or maybe a new error message could just be added to the bottom of the existing error box, so that I can scroll through my errors in bulk instead of clicking through them one at a time.

Also I would like to request for BTC transaction history to be viewable as well as XCP/asset history.  It would be nice if BTC history could just be toggled on/off alongside the others.

[Spratan]

Patrick Byrne will give a keynote speech at Inside Bitcoins Las Vegas.

The blockchain has proved very well suited to the exchange of digital currency. But what about exchanging shares of public companies? Overstock.com Patrick M. Byrne, a longtime critic of Wall Street, is actively pursuing a model for trading stock on a peer to peer basis using the Bitcoin protocol. In his talk, Byrne will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by a decentralized stock exchange.

http://insidebitcoins.com/las-vegas/2014/agenda/
http://insidebitcoins.com/las-vegas/2014/speakers/

Interesting :
- Why does a Top CEO make a lecture on stocks on blockchain ?
- I don't remember how he announced that Overstock would embrace bitcoin, but when he did everything was ready and ahead of agenda.

I hope he will announce something.

http://newsbtc.com/2014/09/22/patrick-byrne-interesting-announcements-regarding-bitcoin-horizon/

Thanks for your answer Mr.Byrne 

[deliciousowl]

Poloniex has added SWARM trading: https://poloniex.com/exchange/btc_swarm
 

[high_roller]

i was wondering about how does the translation of counterwallet is run.

if you translate some of it, who reviews it? i believe that as gifted as xnova pp and the bunch are, they cant go through every last word in chinese and get what people are saying.

i want to translate but i dont want my work thrown away if no one can authorize it.

xnova, and jahpowerbit i see you are listed as the operators of the translation project. can you shed some lite?

[jrmg]

i was wondering about how does the translation of counterwallet is run.

if you translate some of it, who reviews it? i believe that as gifted as xnova pp and the bunch are, they cant go through every last word in chinese and get what people are saying.

i want to translate but i dont want my work thrown away if no one can authorize it.

xnova, and jahpowerbit i see you are listed as the operators of the translation project. can you shed some lite?

Yes they are. You can make account also and join to translate.

[high_roller]

i was wondering about how does the translation of counterwallet is run.

if you translate some of it, who reviews it? i believe that as gifted as xnova pp and the bunch are, they cant go through every last word in chinese and get what people are saying.

i want to translate but i dont want my work thrown away if no one can authorize it.

xnova, and jahpowerbit i see you are listed as the operators of the translation project. can you shed some lite?

Yes they are. You can make account also and join to translate.

i would love to translate, i just want to understand the process first before i put some time into it.

[kingama]

i would love to translate, i just want to understand the process first before i put some time into it.

Since it's a volunteer effort, I would imagine having someone check your translation is a lot easier to
get a couple volunteers for than to do the translation in the first place. Does the translation site require
special access to review the translation?

[high_roller]

i would love to translate, i just want to understand the process first before i put some time into it.

Since it's a volunteer effort, I would imagine having someone check your translation is a lot easier to
get a couple volunteers for than to do the translation in the first place. Does the translation site require
special access to review the translation?

my question exactly

[bitMTW]

Counterparty is a platform for finance and betting. Every action is a Bitcoin transaction with embedded metadata which the Counterparty protocol interprets. All history is saved in the Bitcoin blockchain, and this enables an ecosystem of coins, assets, bets, and games.

Thanks! This was my impression after first reading, but it's good to see it confirmed.

Does Counterparty solve the trust problem for betting and gaming (the fear that the operator may take the money and go)?

Is it suitable in-principle for realtime gaming e.g. online poker?

It seems to solve the gaming security problem. And I am with you guys on the understanding of Counterparty. These guys seem to have the bitcoin platform figured out.

[romerun]

@devs, have you thought much about ways to improve the usage of the DEX? In my view it is such a good idea but has barely gotten any traction. When we look at coinmarketcap and see that $7 worth of XCP traded on the DEX over the past 24 hours vs. ~$6K on Bter I just wonder where we go from here.

does it count the volume from venn, the automatic escrow, maybe people have just moved to that .

[Matt Y]

Development to improve the usability of the DEx is very much ongoing. You can post bugs and usability issues or give opinions on the priority of various things on GitHub: https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterwallet/issues/

Counterparty is an open source project. It's vital that the community contributes and bug reporting is a great way to get started.

[romerun]

@devs, have you thought much about ways to improve the usage of the DEX? In my view it is such a good idea but has barely gotten any traction. When we look at coinmarketcap and see that $7 worth of XCP traded on the DEX over the past 24 hours vs. ~$6K on Bter I just wonder where we go from here.

does it count the volume from venn, the automatic escrow, maybe people have just moved to that .

I don't know, and that's a good point. Is there some way of checking what this volume might be?

Regardless, I think my main point is still valid. I love the idea of the DEX but to be honest the adoption thus far has been disappointing. Is there some way to incentivize people to use the DEX vs. an exchange? I know bter has a points system that gives you discounted fees etc. Maybe something like that could be incorporated in the DEX? Discounted fees aren’t an issue in this case but maybe DEX points can be used for something else? Maybe to offset the fees required to create assets?

I used dex to sell  few grands if x last months and it wasn't so bad actually. I also sold some on poloniex around the same time and guess what I liked dex better because it had occurred to me 2 times that after sending in my XCP, it did not get credited. I had to opened  tickets and took like a two day to resolve.

So my take is trading small amount is fine with dex. For larger amount dex, give me a piece of mind.

If I had a few grand of btc and would want to sell it for USD on the rally to bubble. I would be terrified of using bitstamp/btc-e . I rather hold on my coins and ride the burst. Well that's just analogy.

In short, dex wins on big volume trading

[PhantomPhreak]

Development to improve the usability of the DEx is very much ongoing. You can post bugs and usability issues or give opinions on the priority of various things on GitHub: https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterwallet/issues/

Counterparty is an open source project. It's vital that the community contributes and bug reporting is a great way to get started.

This. Making the DEx experience faster, smoother and more reliable is one of our highest priorities. If you see a way of making it better (especially if that way is straightforward), let us know!